Global Patent Index - EP 0578109 B1

EP 0578109 B1 19951220 - Rotary anode for X-ray tube and method for manufacturing the same

Title (en)

Rotary anode for X-ray tube and method for manufacturing the same

Title (de)

Drehanoden-Röntgenröhre und Herstellungsverfahren dafür

Title (fr)

Tube à rayons X à anode tournante et son procédé de fabrication

Publication

EP 0578109 B1 19951220 (EN)

Application

EP 93110366 A 19930629

Priority

JP 20025392 A 19920703

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0578109A1] A long-life, inexpensive rotary anode for use in an X-ray tube having an X-ray generating layer formed by CVD on a graphite substrate and capable of producing high-power X-rays without the possibility of thermal cracks or delamination. When forming the X-ray generating layer of a tungsten-rhenium alloy on the graphite substrate through a rhenium intermediate layer by CVD, material gases are supplied intermittently so that the entire part or only the surface area of the X-ray generating layer will be formed of laminated structure of ultra-thin films each 0.1 - 5.0 microns thick. The content of rhenium in the tungsten-rhenium alloy forming the X-ray generating layer has a gradient form, i.e. increases from the interface with the rhenium intermediate layer toward the surface, so that the total amount of rhenium added can be reduced. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

H01J 35/10

IPC 8 full level

H01J 9/14 (2006.01); H01J 35/10 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

H01J 35/10 (2013.01 - EP US); Y10T 428/12458 (2015.01 - EP US); Y10T 428/12625 (2015.01 - EP US); Y10T 428/1284 (2015.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0578109 A1 19940112; EP 0578109 B1 19951220; DE 69301070 D1 19960201; DE 69301070 T2 19960822; JP 3277226 B2 20020422; JP H0620630 A 19940128; US 5508118 A 19960416

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 93110366 A 19930629; DE 69301070 T 19930629; JP 20025392 A 19920703; US 24546093 A 19930706